Event Calendar & Archive

2017

Stanford Live Artist Spotlight

7:30 pm

Tateuchi Hall, Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View, CA

For the Artist Spotlight series presented by Stanford Live, free and open to the public, Sarah performs Sofia Gubaidulina's Chaconne, Terry Riley's Fandango on the Heaven Ladder, John Adams' China Gates, two Etudes by Philip Glass, Henry Cowell's Exultation, and Lou Harrison's Jig.

http://arts4all.org/events/sarah-cahill-dec-2017

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Nancy Karp and Dancers with Stenberg Cahill Duo

Friday, February 10, 2017 at 8:00 pmSaturday, February 11, 2017 at 8:00 pmSunday, February 12, 2017 at 7:00 pm

Chaconnes at Women's Faculty Club at UC Berkeley

4 pm

The Women’s Faculty Club, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720

Free and open to the public.

Sarah performs her Chaconnes program, an exploration of the form as it appears in the seventeenth century to the present day, including chaconnes by Henry Purcell, Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Louis Couperin, George Friedrich Handel, Carl Nielsen, Sofia Gubaidulina, Stefan Wolpe, and Danny Clay.

Happy Birthday Lou Harrison!

8 pm

Tuesdays@Monk Space, 4414 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90004

In a co-presentation with MicroFest, T@MS presents San Francisco pianist Sarah Cahill and LA’s own Varied Trio (Aron Kallay, Shalini Vijayan, and Yuri Inoo) in a celebration of Lou Harrison’s life and music in honor of his centennial year.

Lou Harrison Centennial Concert

7 pm

Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012

Pianist Sarah Cahill celebrates the hundredth birthday of maverick composer Lou Harrison with a wide range of his piano music including early unpublished scores, his Schoenberg-inspired Suite, and his exuberant Summerfield Set, paired with music by his friends and colleagues including Henry Cowell and Johanna Beyer and a selection of Party Pieces written in "exquisite corpse" style by Lou Harrison, John Cage, Henry Cowell, and Virgil Thomson.

An Evening with Sarah Cahill: Lou Harrison on the Piano

8 pm

Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Sarah Cahill celebrates the centennial of maverick composer Lou Harrison as part of MicroFest North. Her program features Harrison's Summerfield Set, several movements from the Suite, two Cembalo Sonatas, the early Jig and Range-Song, and several unpublished and rarely performed works.

Garden of Memory

5 to 9 pm

Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland

New Music Bay Area presents Garden of Memory, the annual summer solstice concert at the Chapel of the Chimes, a beautiful columbarium and mausoleum designed by Julia Morgan. Performers you can hear during this popular event include Henry Kaiser, Robin Petrie, Zachary James Watkins, Gyan Riley, Samuel Adams and Helen Kim, Paul Dresher and Joel Davel, Amy X Neuburg, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Dylan Mattingly, Laura Inserra, Maggi Payne, Pamela Z, Juraj Kojs and Paula Mathusen, Sarah Cahill, and many more. Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle calls Garden of Memory "a walk-through fun house of musical and visual splendor." Pick up a map with performer locations, or just wander freely, discovering a variety of acoustic and electronic music in the four hours before twilight. This year will feature a musical memorial to the legendary Don Buchla. www.gardenofmemory.com

Interlochen Festival

Sarah joins pianist Alon Goldstein as soloists for Takemitsu's Quotation of Dream: Say Sea, Take Me! with Carlos Izcaray conducting Interlochen's World Youth Symphony Orchestra Also on the program are John Adams' The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra and Debussy’s La Mer.

Sri Moonshine Music Series

Sarah performs the culminating concert of a "Grand Piano Weekend" organized by Terry Riley as part of his Sri Moonshine Music Series. Her program includes Terry Riley's Be Kind to One Another and Fandango on the Heaven Ladder as well as works by Ravel and Debussy.

Community School of Music and Arts

Sarah returns to CSMA for another performance of recent and rarely performed music by American composers, including George Lewis, Ann Southam, Terry Riley, Meredith Monk, Ingram Marshall, Paul Dresher, and Ruth Crawford.

Pauline Oliveros symposium

7 pm

Brooklyn College

At a symposium honoring the legacy of Pauline Oliveros, Sarah joins trombonist Monique Buzzarte to perform Oliveros' "The Gender of Now," a piece that Monique and Sarah commissioned from Pauline Oliveros. The symposium includes many performances and talks and panel discussions by colleagues, students, admirers, and collaborators of Pauline Oliveros.

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Bay Area Refugee Support Benefit

Zion Lutheran Church & School, 495 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118

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28

Nov

2017

Patterns of Plants in Tokyo

Lou Harrison in Fukuoka

Fukuoka Circular Hall, Fukuoka, Japan

As part of a Lou Harrison 100th birthday celebration produced by Mamoru Fujieda, Sarah performs a range of Lou Harrison's keyboard works, including unpublished and rarely-heard pieces, on three pianos: one in equal temperament, one in Werckmeister 2 tuning, and a tack piano.

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10

Dec

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New Music Conflagration

8:30 pm

St. Petersburg Library, 3745 9th Avenue North, Saint Petersburg, FL

The New Music Conflagration presents Cahill in a solo program of "Lou Harrison and His Circle," featuring Harrison’s piano works alongside music by his friends and colleagues including Henry Cowell, John Cage, Johanna Beyer, James Cleghorn, and Frank Wigglesworth.

Lou Harrison at 100 with EnsembleNewSRQ

8 pm

First Congregational Church, 1031 S Euclid Ave, Sarasota, FL

Sarah performs music by Lou Harrison to honor his 100th birthday with members of EnsembleNewSRQ. She joins violinist Samantha Bennett for Lou Harrison's Grand Duo, and then they are joined by percussionist George Nickson for the Varied Trio. Sarah also performs some early unpublished pieces.